Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

Week starting Dec 20, 2009

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Location:

Tooele & Ivins,UT,USA

Member Since:

Oct 30, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

St. George Marathon 20-year Club (completed 26)

Boston Marathon 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017 (+DNF 2011)

Running for 39 years, logged 58,000 miles since 1982. 38 marathons.

Old Man PR's:

5K = 19:58 - July 4th Freedom Run 7/4/08

6K = 26:38 - Cold Turkey Rrrun, 11/23/06

10K = 43:00 - Deseret News, 7/24/08

1/2 Marathon = 1:32:54 - Hobble Creek, 8/23/08

Marathon = 3:23:13 - St. George, 10/4/08 (Boston Qualifier)

Boston Best: 3:35:07, 4/21/08 (Boston Qualifier)

Boston Worst: DNF, 4/18/11

Short-Term Running Goals:

Keep running!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running for another 20 years.

Personal:

Married for 44 years to a wonderful and supportive wife. She's run 2 marathons herself in our earlier years so that helps. 4 boys, all married, and 10 grandchildren. 2 sons are runners. I celebrated 39 years of running madness, insanity, or at least OCD, on August 23rd, 2021.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Nike Free Lifetime Miles:						22.50
Saucony Peregrine Trail Lifetime Miles:						318.15
Asics 2000 Aqua #2 Lifetime Miles:						419.50
Asics 2000 Aqua #3 Lifetime Miles:						393.10
Asics 2000 Gray/Yellow Lifetime Miles:						610.30
Saucony Peregrine Trail #2 Lifetime Miles:						168.40
Asics 2000 Aqua #4 Lifetime Miles:						355.00

Totals

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
19.20	16.00	35.20

Mon, Dec 21, 2009

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
4.00	0.00	4.00

4 miles easy this morning at 5:10 a.m. and foggy. Solo, Elaine didn't show.

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Tue, Dec 22, 2009

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
3.10	2.00	5.10

5 miles this morining at 5:10 a.m. with Tina in about 46:00. A bit foggy in spots and a bit icy on the upper end of the road on Skyline. Otherwise a good run, pushing the last couple of miles some.

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Wed, Dec 23, 2009

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
4.10	1.00	5.10

5+ miles on the TM in 46:50 at 5:10 a.m. Ran easy for the first few. 9:30 to 9:00 minute pace. Gradually increasing until finishing last 1/4 at 7:20 pace down to 6:55. Felt pretty good this morning. 4 to 5 inches of snow since yesterday afternoon. Hope to be on the roads tomorrow morning after sleeping in some. Merry Christmas to all the bloggers.

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Thu, Dec 24, 2009

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
4.00	5.00	9.00

9 miles in 1:19:12, 8:44 pace overall. 9:00 a.m. run with Tina. Sunny, but cold. 200 West loop down to Pine Canyon Road and up Droubay to Smelter Road and home via Vine Street. Fastest mile at 7:40 pace. Tina can really push those downhills when I'm wanting to run a bit easier. Slower 9:30 pace the last 3 miles coming back up the hills. Icy roads in spots, both of us wearing spikes today. A good thing early on, not so great the last half on drier roads.

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Fri, Dec 25, 2009

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
0.00	0.00	0.00

Christmas Day. No running.

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Sat, Dec 26, 2009

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
4.00	8.00	12.00

12 mile run this morning at 9:00 a.m. with Tina. 8:56 overall pace. Sunny day, but not too warm. It was cold going up the Smelter Road hills when we were in the shade of the Oquirrh Mountains. Tina did 10 miles with me. We had a 7:33 mile coming down the hills. Felt good to open it up a bit. She was supposed to take it easy on me.

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Totals

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
19.20	16.00	35.20

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